Amazing architecture

Last night, and again tonight, I walked along the edge of the fjord to a restaurant for dinner. I appear to be on a business park with lots of very modern buidlings for technology firms and almost all of the buildings are of a very interesting design. This is the one I like the most and this picture was taken from the roof of my office at lunchtime. The windows on the end of the cubes have automatic blinds that are almost jet black and therefore reflect the sky when the light is just right. The seaplane in the picture was parked (or moored, I'm not sure iof the right term) outside the restaurant this evening. Apparently they do pleasure flights over Oslo. How wonderful that would be on a fine day - it was not fine tonight. It was wet and rather miserable this evening.

To add to the excitement of the day and retaining the aeronautical theme, we had 3 military helicopters and 1 police helicopter doing manouvres in the car park opposite the office today. Don't know what that was about but it was a wonderful distraction.

I was once again struck by how the people here enjoy the outdoors. The 15 minute walk to the office is all off road on purpose buit pedestrian paths which run alongside purpose built cycle paths. For cyclists, this means they can get around in relative safety and very quickly (some of these guys are seriously fast - I think it must be the lycra. I must get some). They made a big thing in my home town about building cycle paths to make life easier and safer for cyclists. What this meant was painting a solid white line about 10" away from the curb. In other words, I'm still expected to cycle in the gutter but I am now protected from harm from glancing blows of passing vehicles by this magical white line - a kind iof force field that no motorised vehicle can cross. We do so may thins so well in the UK, but when it comes to cycle paths, many of our our European neighbours make us look like amateurs.